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Best practices for verifying and validating your backups

Acronis

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

Backup and disaster recovery are critical elements in the drive to thwart ransomware. Backup is the final layer of data protection. All too often, however, organizations mount what they think are effective backup systems only to find them inadequate in a real emergency. Want to learn more about backup and ransomware?

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22; Updates from Alcion, Arcserve, Veeam & More

Solutions Review

Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22, 2023 Alcion Raises $21 Million, with Participation from Veeam, for Go-to-Market Founded in 2022, Alcion provides Microsoft 365 administrators with a platform to protect against ransomware, malware, corruption and accidental data loss. Read on for more. Read on for more.

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4 Keys to Consider When Evaluating Cloud Data Protection Tools

Solutions Review

The unfortunate truth is that most SaaS providers don’t offer the necessary level of data backup and recovery that enterprises require to get back up and running. If you read the cloud agreement, you’ll discover SaaS vendors aren’t responsible for data backup. Eighty Six Percent Rely on Their SaaS Vendor for Backup.

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Zerto Innovates with Mobility and Resilience to New Platforms and Full Protection of Kubernetes Components

Zerto

Earlier this year, Zerto established its leadership in the Kubernetes data protection space with the release of Zerto for Kubernetes, bringing continuous data protection for backup and disaster recovery (DR) to a native Kubernetes (K8s) experience. . This includes human errors, outages, but most importantly: ransomware. .

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

how quickly power is restored) If the organization has a backup environment to recover to and resume operations Mean time to discovery (MTTD) Note: Recovery times are often measured in recovery time objectives (RTOs) which dictate the maximum time that a system can be offline.

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Protecting Data Beyond the Firewall in SaaS

OffsiteDataSync

Here’s a quick list of considerations to keep in mind regarding SaaS data, but if you want more detail, check out our new eBook, “ Backup & Disaster Recovery Strategies for the New World of Work.” A massive malware attack that digitally shreds their data? That data is critical. It needs to be protected.